TOP English trainer Guy Harwood, who trained the brilliant Dancing Brave to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1986, is retiring at the end of the season.
Dancing Brave, one of the best colts since the war, also won the English 2,000 Guineas and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot.
He should have won the Derby, too, but was set a virtually impossible task by Greville Starkey and just failed to catch Walter Swinburn's mount, Shahrastani.
In the mid 1980s, Harwood had around 150 horses in his sophisticated West Sussex stables, but that figure has now dropped to a mere 41.
At his peak, Harwood trained several Group One winners, including Sadeem, Warning, Rousillon, To-Agori-Mou and Ile de Chypre.
Harwood, 56, is handing the operation over to his daughter Amanda who is married to recently retired jump jockey Mark Perrett.
The Harwood family originally started in the jumping world, training point-to-pointers from near their garage in Pulborough. But Guy Harwood gradually built up the quality of his string and shifted to the flat where he was one of the top trainers in Europe throughout the eighties.